Health Equity Lead Care Manager

Description

Reports To: ECM & Community Support Manager

Employment Status: Full-Time | Non-Exempt

Pay Range
: $23.00–$26.00 per hour

Schedule: Monday–Friday | 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Service Area: Community-based position with travel to client, healthcare, community, and partner locations as needed.

When you join Yolo Cares, you're joining a community-grounded nonprofit committed to helping individuals and families navigate complex health and social needs with compassion, dignity, and respect. As a Health Equity Lead Care Manager, you'll build meaningful relationships with clients, connect people to critical resources, and help address the barriers that can prevent individuals from accessing the care and support they need.

• Ranked in the Top 1% nationally and in California for hospice quality
• Nationally recognized by Modern Healthcare as a Best Place to Work five times, with 95% of employees saying they’re proud to work at Yolo Cares
• Mileage reimbursement
• Competitive annual compensation and comprehensive benefits package

Yolo Cares offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance.

• Comprehensive health insurance for employees (up to 100% employer-paid, depending on plan), with additional support toward covering dependents.
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Retirement plan with company matching
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Training and professional development opportunities

As a community-founded and community-grounded nonprofit with a nearly 50-year track record of caring for people living with life-limiting illnesses, Yolo Cares is committed to providing compassionate, innovative, and patient-centered care. Our commitment to this mission is reflected in our accomplishments:

• First California healthcare provider accepted into the prestigious National Partnership for Healthcare & Hospice Innovation.
• Opened the West Coast's first community housing program for individuals living with a terminal illness who are also experiencing homelessness.
• Created a unique five-star adult day program in Davis, California.
• Our team of professionals sees their work not simply as a job, but as a human response to an inner voice. For many, it is a calling—a vocation dedicated to serving patients and families with compassion, dignity, and respect.

As a Health Equity Lead Care Manager, you'll help individuals and families navigate healthcare and social service systems, connect with essential resources, and overcome barriers to care. You'll provide care management, education, advocacy, outreach, and resource navigation while collaborating with healthcare and community partners to coordinate services. This lead-level individual contributor role independently manages an assigned caseload and supports clients with complex needs.

• Build trusting relationships with clients and families and learn about their goals, strengths, needs, and barriers to care.
• Manage an assigned caseload and provide ongoing care management, education, coordination, and advocacy.
• Help clients navigate healthcare systems, schedule appointments, access benefits, and connect with appropriate services.
• Connect clients and families with healthcare, behavioral health, housing, food, transportation, financial assistance, and other community resources.
• Follow up with clients to monitor needs, referrals, services, and care-plan goals.
• Advocate for clients and families and help reduce barriers to care.
• Identify and appropriately escalates clinical, safety, or other concerns to the…